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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zwolff who wrote (31214)	4/26/2000 4:38:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Important Announcement --- Just-On goes to market In this gem is their entire strategy. ======================= Novell Creates Hosted File Services for the Net PR Newswire - April 26, 2000 15:15 -- Solution Is Industry's First to Integrate Internet File Services With Caching and Content Acceleration Solutions -- Novell Offering Services to ISPs, ASPs and Dot-Coms to Help Customers Benefit From Faster File Sharing, Storage and Access PROVO, Utah, April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), a leading provider of Net services software, today announced the availability of hosted file services on the Internet. Novell is the first company to provide integrated file services with caching on the Internet, which offers users increased scalability, distribution and acceleration of file sharing, storage and access. Novell's JustOn Hosted File Services is available for ISPs, ASPs and dot-com companies that want to offer Internet file sharing as part of their Net services offerings. Novell's hosted file services is a key building block in its Net services software strategy to help companies secure, simplify and accelerate access to the Net. To offer this unique service, Novell is combining technology from its recent acquisition of JustOn, Inc. and its Novell Internet Caching System (ICS). The combined solution significantly accelerates delivery and scalability of JustOn files and distributed file access across the Internet while decreasing hardware costs by a factor of 20. The storing and sharing of user files on the Internet instead of on hard drives provides a user with global access to their files through a Web browser, and allows them to easily share any files with friends and colleagues. "By marrying ICS with the JustOn Hosted File Services, we're providing our customers with accelerated file access and making the Internet a viable choice for storage and distributed file access," said Drew Major, Novell's Chief Scientist and Vice President of Advanced Development. "We are pushing files to the edge of the Net, closer to where users need them and overcoming the latency issues that so many customers encounter when accessing files remotely. For years, Novell has been known for helping customers reliably access their files on the network and now we're extending that reliability to the Net." In recent independent tests, ICS has been found to provide more than 20 times the performance of other caching technologies on the market. Novell is one of the first companies to integrate Internet file services and delivery into caching and accelerated content delivery. Several ISPs and other service providers have already begun testing the hosted file services from Novell and are preparing to offer the service to their customers in the coming weeks. Pricing and Availability JustOn Files is immediately available as a hosted service and is sold on a consumption basis measured in megabits per second usage per month. Pricing for ISPs, ASPs and dot-coms is $1,195 to $1,795 per megabit per second (Mbps) based on a month's average consumption. For more information on partnering programs for subscribing to Novell's hosted file services, service providers and dot-com companies can visit juston.com. Users can try the hosted file services with a user account allowing 50 free MB of storage space on the Internet at juston.com. ======================= Can someone who works for an ISP do some analysis on what this pricing model looks like?

To: zwolff who wrote (31214)	4/26/2000 4:42:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Respond to of 42771

More on Juston net services revenue model From the JustoOn site: "We have developed a very flexible program that meets most, if not all, of your requirements. If not, we would like to hear about them. Private-labeled Services Program Through this program, you can offer JustOn applications under your own brand and under your own properties. You can run your advertisement and monetize it the way you want. We will simply run and manage the applications for you. You don't have to worry about infrastructure, quality of service, technology updates and security. We will do that for you. We can also work with you to integrate JustOn Files with your own registration procedures and other collaborative applications you may have running on your properties. Under this program, you will be responsible for a monthly fee, determined by your capacity needs, first line support as well as placing JustOn copyright information and the logo on all pages serviced by JustOn. This program is ideal for portals of any nature, communities of interests and Internet Service Providers. For more information on this program, contact JustOn or send us e-mail to partners@juston.com. Branded and Co-Branded Services Program Through this program, you can offer branded or co-branded JustOn services to your end users. JustOn will be responsible for offering the service and moneytizing the property. We will simply share revenues with you. Once again, you don't have to worry about infrastructure, quality of service, technology updates, and security. We will do that for you. This program is ideal for ISPs, broadband providers, PC and ePC vendors. For more information on this program, contact JustOn or send us e-mail to partners@juston.com. Point to JustOn Through this program, you can point to the JustOn property and offer your end-users the JustOn applications. Simply include a link on your web site to www.juston.com and start providing your communities the JustOn applications. JustOn will measure all the traffic generated from your site and it will reward the top three producers through monthly awards and promotions. There is absolutely no financial commitment on your behalf. Simply point to us and win! For more information on the JustOn Point program, contact JustOn or send e-mail to partners@juston.com. Please include your name and the site that will point to the JustOn Web site."